Life, Computer Science, Student

Posted on March 31, 2016

*at midnight outside Brickyard

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These kids arrive at this junction everyday at 10pm. And test their robot all night. They sleep in the day, wake up to write some code and set out to test it. They have been at it for weeks. Last Sunday, they finally got it to work after an all nighter. When I arrived on Monday, I heard this conversation between two professors in the elevator :

Prof 1 : Those kids are way too happy for a Monday morning. Maybe we are not making them work hard enough.

Prof 2: They are in the same clothes since yesterday. I doubt if they went home. I think they finally got that thing to work. They deserve that grin they have plastered on their faces.

April is a sort of finale for my grad school life. I want to end it with a grin plastered on my face. My to-do list :

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Time consuming. Not too much but I keep coming back to check on the comments, read other blogs, look at the numbers, etc. And for some odd reason, I have gotten a dozen requests for collaborations in the last one week. And I never gotten a request prior. Murphy’s laws in work ! So intentionally guarding my time.

So typical that I discover your blog when you decide to take a break… 😀 Thank you so very much for leaving a comment on mine otherwise I would not find you. Amazing, absolutely amazing reading spot! You are amazing. Good luck with everything!

Hehe, I agree with prof 2, they deserve the grin indeed. 🙂 I remember these coding all nighters very well ~ a touch of nostalgia coming up. But at some point it’s time to finish up and move on. And so I wish you a happy and balanced April so that you can reach your April goals with ease. Loads of success wishes to you, Archana.

Oh yeah, I have been following this story with interest. I am also learning to use deep learning. Its an interesting time to be alive.

One of the main architects of deepmind interviewed me for a job last week. I had a surreal floating out of my body moment when I met him. I was shaking throughout the interview. Wasn’t a good behavioural trait 🙂

Awww, you’ll look back at this day sometime in the future and the thought of shaking before this giant, will only make you smile in bemusement. Trust me, this will happen:) And yes, this is a very interesting time to be alive. Most parts of the world today are armed- conflict free( compared to 500 years ago) and instead,are in some type of present- future- now mash technology wise. 30 years later, I strongly ‘know’ that the routines of our lives will not even remotely resemble today’s…
Meanwhile, enjoy your April!

I was discussing this exact thing with my uncle the other day. I am an atheist. If I said this out loud, they would have gone for my head a hundred years ago. I support gay rights. I can’t say this sentence out loud without repercussions in so many countries. There is so much literature, science, technology, philosophy, online education, …. and you get to choose. Nobody shoves it down my throat. I wouldn’t go anywhere in a time machine if I ever get hold of one. Now is great !

Another statistic I got to know : extreme poverty rates are falling, in lot of countries.